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Derek Dobachesky
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This round goes to Tunechi. Pusha’s diss track was mostly just him being angry, Weezy killed it with the lyrics on this one.
Another important fact: If you preorder the single, you will receive an mp3 version immediately.
Also, the artwork on the vinyl makes me very happy that I am getting a record player this week.
Cuz he’s ‘Ye’s protege?
Bronze for 100+ people liking your Myspace/Soundcloud page.
I don’t know what it means, but it’s provocative ….
It’s not a remix album.
Civil Twilight’s on the banner ads on both sides of this web page. And also issuiing your paychecks, apparently:)
I honestly wonder if anyone who attended that Dylan tribute looks back and feels like a total asshole/idiot.
Also, I wish she’d had another picture of the Pope on her at the time …
Nicki’s verse is like a terrible rip-off of herself on songs like “Roman’s Revenge” and “Did It On ‘Em.”
I hope this wins top comment next week, and then a comment on that list tops the top comments list the week after that,. Ad infinitum until Shut Up, Dude just becomes an alternate reality unto itself! (Or does it?)
Hopefully he said “Treat yo self!” immediately before treating himself to this box set.
Hey, that comparisons demeans “November Rain.”
I agree. This list is terminally unchill.
I think, in order to please all of the commenters who lament the lack of objectivity in these sorts of lists, Stereogum should conduct and post a series of meta-analyses of lists of the best singles of each of the last seven decades.
Once that has been completed, one mega-meta-analysis can then be conducted of all of these meta-analyses in order to determine, objectively, the best single in the history of modern pop music.
Then we can all say, “FUCK YOU!” to everyone who’s wrong and complains about it.
I honestly didn’t think Fallon’s Bowie was bad, but JGL’s Axl was ATROCIOUS. It was like … way too low and raspy and gurgly, when it needed to be high and piercing.
In offering your faint praise that “The Reminder was a perfectly charming low-key record that served a definite utilitarian purpose,” you completely neglected to address Leslie’s actual songwriting and performance on the album.
It sounds almost as if it’s a pleasant series of sounds just emanating from the ether–not a work created by an actual human being with talent rather than just a pleasant hum permeating pop culture.
Love love love “Kimmi in a Rice Field.”
Well, they clearly got hired for a reason.
Oops–”*it* wouldn’t to other peoples’.” Plus it’s quite awkward to end a sentence with a possessive like that–probably inappropriate, but pl!ease don’t flag it
Fair enough. I just wanted to state my opinion that the tension IS the emotional core you claimed was missing.
I understand the thing about not wanting more tension/repression, but for some reason I personally enjoy confronting directly the things I most dislike.
Plus, her music sounds quite pleasant to my ears–though I can understand why, in a sense, they wouldn’t to other peoples’. 
Sorry to rain on the “criticize Annie/St. Vincent” parade, but I like her music. A lot!
I call it tension *and* repression. I don’t see how the two are necessarily different. I’ve seen her live twice, and met her once, and it definitely seems that everything she does is deliberate and thought-through. Why is this necessarily a bad thing? If her tensity comes out in her music then well, maybe that’s just her style–and, by extension, a reflection of her personality. And maybe her perfectionism is a result of her self-doubt.
I like the coldness in her voice and the tension/repression in her music. When I met her, she seemed genuinely flustered and wide-eyed after her performance. My friend asked for and received a hug, while I complimented her guitar, and she was very friendly but also very awkward and guarded.
@iv2112L Nope. You are wrong. Kanye and Justin are both incredibly talented artists–in part because they *embrace* new ways of expressing themselves. For example: autotune.
@rhondarara: I’d say calculated to some people means just a more articulate way of stating what they truly feel and mean. And I’d speculate that for Justin Vernon, that is the case.
I’d set up a multi-colored strobe light in front of its light sensors, then do a bong rip and blow the smoke in front of the PAL198X. Then I’d ride some tasty chillwaves, get a cool high-pitched buzz, and be fine.
I don’t know exactly how much we can gather about her thoughts behind these photos just from seeing the photos themselves. Other than she probably likes the kind of poses she made in these photos.
Yeah, she crushes a certain other female mc when it comes to singing …